The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-07
A Column or Two of Chat About
the Fair Daughters of
Eve.
Together with q Few Notes on the
Latest Styles In Feminine
Attire.

Let us consider the well-dressed
woman in her home. If she is care
full and considerate dresser she will
take as much pains with her house tot
lets as she will with those designed for
the street. Not the earliest of break
fasts will bring her frowzy or shabby
to the table; and just now, indeed,
fashion prescribes q special corsage for
breakfast gowns. The material may
be almost anything Of simple nature,
though wash goods are best, and of
such material is the example shown
in the first picture. The distinct
i've feature, as can be seen, is SEM
blance of the crossed handkerchief,
something like those of our great
grandmothers' days. These may be of
muslin and lace, as in the first figure,
or of soft colored stuff, as convenient.
The wedge of neck is left bare,
the sleeves are above the wrists, the
hair is dressed high from the neck, and
it requires only fresh, healthy, amia-
bic wearer to be positively irresistible.
The cut of the gown itself should de-
dend considerably on the individuality
of the woman.
An exceedingly slender woman can
wear what may be called fat clothes.
A neglige for her room can be effect
lively made, for instance, of cream
white wooden canvas, with rows of silk
ribbon run into pulled" places wher-
ever any trimming can be used. Now
that it is going to be cooler she can
have wrapper of surah silk and white
nuns yelling. The lining is of thin
delaine, the outer surface of blue surah,
and between the two there is layer of
cotton wadding basted securely to the
lining all over. Then up and down the
front and about the loose sleeves and
collar it is tackled through and through,
at intervals of three inches, just as a
comfortable is made. A coarse needle
threaded with stout linen is passed
through the whole thing, and bunch
of fine pearl-edged satin ribbon, for
running into lace, is tied securely in
tufting to the front in rows and going
around the neck and sleeves several
times. 1t is an exquisite thing so soft,
and so sweet, for an ounce or so of
violet sachet powder scattered upon the
cotton perfumes the robe like a spring
morning. OF course, none but the
Sarah Bernhardts of women can in
dulge in such wadded gowns. The un-
fortunate possessors of avoirdupois can
not have tufted dresses unless they
wish to look stuffed. But there are
plenty of slim women who can be per-
feet loves of comfort and beauty in this
charming kind of gown.
| When the fashionable woman CARDS
herself for the reception of afternoon
or evening callers, she also sees to it
that her maidservant is not less fault
lessly attired. Caps and aprons are in
vogue, and the dresses are oftenest
calico or bingham, wooden being gen.
orally forbidden and silk not to be
thought of. A neat thing in SER
wants is shown in the next picture. The
costume of the lady is model in India
silk and embossed satin. OF the wearer
a friend said to the writer:
"The way she gets her dresses is
this: She goes to her dressmaker now
and then, l should say about every two
months, and tells her what she wants.
She requires ball dress. a street cos
tune, morning gown for the house,
and dress for church. She has no
idea what she wants in single in
stance when she goes there-I mean as
to goods, or cut, or what not. She
looks over the dresses then on hand,
those under way, or those ready to
send out to customers. She likes the
goods in one, the front drapery of
another, and the back of a third, and
she has all these things combined. To
my taste she always improves on any
thing the dressmaker has or suggests
| in fact. she is q horn dresamaker her